From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 21:04:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA02602 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:04:43 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA02596 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:04:42 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA16352 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:04:35 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA07586; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:47:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507190417.NAA07586@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI disk... To: joe@ns.via.net (Joe McGuckin) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:47:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507190344.UAA16677@ns.via.net> from "Joe McGuckin" at Jul 18, 95 08:44:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 939 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying: > Ok, I've played with the boot code, but for some reason, I can't > write it back to disk! > > I modified the signon banner so I'd know if I succeeded. > > Make'ing & installing the boot code produces sdboot and bootsd. They should end up in /usr/mdec. You use disklabel to write them to the disk. > Also, there is a program named 'boot', how does this get updated? > Just copy it from the biosboot src directory? If this is necessary, > why doesn't the install target do this? Not as far as I'm aware. > Joe -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[